Black Lung Research in Morgantown: Impact on a Nation of Miners opened at the Morgantown History Museum in Morgantown, West Virginia, will run until December 14.

The display includes National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health contributions as well as the input of other partners over four decades in achieving progress against coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, popularly known as black lung, and their ongoing work in making further inroads against the disease.

NIOSH now operates the Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program, a worker monitoring program for underground coal miners in the US. The program was mandated by the 1969 Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act (Mine Act) and was designed to prevent coal workers’ pneumoconiosis through early detection of disease and voluntary mine transfers to low-dust jobs.

NIOSH has an information page on black lung disease, its forms, symptoms and current research at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/pneumoconioses/.